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  • Signed up for Edward Tufte's one day workshop

    I've seen the big three books (haven't read them yet). I've heard about how great of a seminar it is (more on Sells' post in a second). So I've signed up for the one day seminar in Indianapolis this August. And the great thing is that as a part of the registration, you recieve all three books to take...
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  • Longhorn and Linux vs WinXP

    Read this article first (make sure you make it to the end). . . There now wasn't that funny :) Ok, so the question is even if everything said in the article is true about Longhorn; what can Microsoft do about it? The Longhorn initiative reminds me of the .NET initiative, where Microsoft was reportedly...
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  • The PC designed with Longhorn in mind

    This year at WinHEC, Microsoft and HP previewed an updated version of their "Athens PC" concept machine. Although the current white paper was published May 5 2003, it provides a few clues on what type of computer you may be running the final version of Longhorn on. A few of the features mentioned: Modern...
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  • Apple's new Dashboard

    Apple's Tiger preview has a new feature called Dashboard which will add some new power to the desktop. Dashboard hosts mini-apps called widgets, which appear to be mostly simple applications like calculators, calendars and notepads. The really interesting aspect is that the widgets are created with XHTML...
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  • Thems fightin' words...

    An article entitled Mozilla Looking to Forge Alliances with GNOME and Other Open Source Projects to Combat Longhorn was published Tuesday by Brendan Eich of the Mozilla Foundation . Brendan is calling for alliance to fight the Microsoft “hegemon” and its future OS Longhorn. It all sounds...
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